2009 Q2 Contest

Transportation

Judges Comments

This is a beautifully lit photo that gives a mood of romance and has several nice layers to it. I like the framing through the front window and the open door window at left. At right, the women’s expression brings you back into the center focus of the image, the kiss.

This photo has a lot of great layering with the old-fashioned car, illuminated couple kissing, and guests seen through the car doors. Nice composition and moment.

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This was a great moment with the dog following down the open road. A tilted horizon adds interest to the photograph.

This is another of the Cartier-Bresson-like images that capture a private moment in a beautiful country setting. The little tilt of the photo gives it a sense of motion and the dog adds a priceless detail.

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Great find in this. I love the surprising wave and the juxtaposition of the person at right looking at the passing car. It's a great "ender" to a wedding album, etc. It also has that timeless feel to it with the wave. I want to add, though, that while this is top for me, I think this category overall is fairly weak, so it's the best of a category that could be stronger.

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My goodness, what a wonderfully innocent scene, hearkening back to W. Eugene Smith’s “The Walk to Paradise Garden.” This image is timeless, suggesting the new road, the new path that the bride and groom are on. The children represent the life the bride and groom are leaving behind, maybe even a little reluctantly, and they get a final glimpse as they leave the scene. Beautiful image.

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This photograph has a lot of nice qualities. The wedding couple is framed beautifully through the window emphasizing their expressions of happiness. The guests fill the rest of the frame including a reflection of one in the window of the car. There is a lot of really nice energy in this photograph.

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For capturing sheer joy, this photo is it! There is no other way to describe the expressions on the faces other than priceless. The photographer left in just enough of the environment to give the photo a rich ornateness. Great composition is the result of that.

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Very nice moment in the subway that's intimate in a public place. I think that's the strength of this photo. I wish the photographer would have worked the surrounding elements more to play into the essence of this photograph, meaning to be more aware of what's going on in a looser manner - I think there could be a better moment for sure on the subway.

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Nice action shot of the bride being lifted off a boat for a clear landing by the groom and an usher as another one looks on at right.

Now there’s an unusual method of transportation. Lifting the bride off the boat and suspending her in mid-air give the picture a bit of a surreal feel. Very nicely composed with a spectator slightly off to the right to give the image a bit more of a cinema verite quality.

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The gritty subway scene frames the quiet moment between the bride and groom creating an interesting photograph.

Color, lighting and motion blur don’t distract from this singularly private image in a most singularly public place. Beautiful job of framing the image in the window, capturing the moment and leaving the subjects to themselves.

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OK, so it's not a very exciting photo, but it's surprising and I really liked that the photographer saw the ticket. It's something I haven't seen before and it's well done within what existed, so nice job.

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